CBS says he will return a palaied transcription of his interview in October with Kamala Harris in the Federal Communication Commission, part of President Donald Trump’s continued struggle with how he handled a story about his opponent.
Trump sued CBS for $ 10 million during the “60 Minute” interview, claiming it had been edited to make Harris look good.
Published reports said CBS’s parent company Paramount has talked to Trump’s lawyers about a solution.
The network said on Friday that he was obliged by Brendan Carr, the name of Trump as the head of the FCC, to return the transcripts and resources of the interview cameras for a parallel investigation by the Commission.
“60 minutes” has resisted the issuance of transcriptions for this and all its interviews, to avoid the second conjecture of its editing process.
The matter, especially a possible solution, is being closely viewed by lawyers for freedom of the press and by journalists within CBS, whose lawyers called Trump’s lawsuits “completely without merit” and promised to fight it after it was raised.
The Harris interview initially drew attention because CBS News showed that Harris giving completely different answers to a question raised by the Bill Whitaker correspondent in the clips that were broadcast on “Face the Nation” on October 6 and the next night in “60 minutes”.
The network said each clip came from a long answer from Harris to Whitaker’s question, but they were edited to adjust the time limit on both broadcasts.
In his lawsuit, filed in Texas on November 1, Trump accused it was the fraudulent editing created to benefit Harris and constituted “partisan and illegal acts of voter intervention”.
Trump, who rejected a request to be interviewed by “60 minutes” during the campaign, continued his fight despite won elections less than a week after the lawsuit was filed.
The network has not commented on talks on a possible solution, reported by Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
Paramount executives are seeking the adoption of the Trump administration of a company sale to another entertainment firm, Skydance.
ABC News in December filed a trump defamation lawsuit over statements made by anchor George Stephanopoulos, agreeing to pay $ 15 million to Trump’s presidential library rather than engaging in a public war.
Meta is said to have paid $ 25 million to pay Trump’s lawsuit against the company for its decision to suspend its social media accounts after January 6, 2021, the riots in the US Capitol.
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